Last week, as Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano tried to back-paddle her way out of her department’s disgraceful report on “right-wing extremists” and “disgruntled Vets,” I really didn’t think it was possible for her to dig herself a deeper hole with war veterans, to whom we all owe our own safety and liberty.

But, lo and behold, the little lady has gone and done it.

The Hill is today reporting on Napolitano’s appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, wherein she claimed that it wasn’t really veterans’ genuine bent towards terrorist acts that concerned the DHS, it was their stupidity and willingness to be used by right-wing extremist groups.  You remember, I’m sure, who those “extremist” groups are:  right-to-life proponents, 2^nd Amendment supporters and those who see the federal government’s leap to the far left as un-Constitutional tyranny.

It has evidently whooshed right over the head of Ms. Napolitano that U.S. troops not only can and do think for themselves, but that among the entire host of the citizenry at large, these men and women are probably the most adept at escaping the propagandized proselytes that prey on dimwitted folks.  Actually, the most easily duped by false logic and into terrorist actions, seem to thrive on our university campuses most, and certainly least among our military.

Unfortunately, this mindset so amply demonstrated by Napolitano today is in the same vein as Senator Kerry’s idiotic campaign joke in 2006.  Readers may recall John Kerry addressing a group of high schoolers with his elitist poppycock about keeping their grades up so they wouldn’t end up in Iraq.

John Kerry to students:  “Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you‘re intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.”

Soldiers in the war theater made such mincemeat out of Kerry’s dimwitted “joke” that he became an instant pariah even to his own political party.

And here we are in 2009, hip deep in Obama change no one apparently wants, while Ms. Napolitano channels John Kerry on national television.

Is there any cure for liberal elitist myopia?

If the Democrat Party put half the money they spend on selling abortion into finding a cure for the thing that most ails their own sorry lot, we might actually be able to get this American Titanic turned around.

That’s my opinion.